handle RAID partitions on x86 partition tables

[yaboot.git] / man / yaboot.conf.5

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--- a/man/yaboot.conf.5
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\" This program is distributed according to the Gnu General Public License.
 .\" See the file COPYING in the ybin source distribution.
 .\"
-.TH YABOOT.CONF 5 "28 May 2001" "GNU/Linux PowerPC" "File Formats"
+.TH YABOOT.CONF 5 "28 October 2001" "GNU/Linux PowerPC" "File Formats"
 .SH NAME
 .B yaboot.conf
 \- Configuration file format used by
@@ -247,8 +247,14 @@ darwin.  This is only relevant if you have \fIbsd=\fR, \fImacos=\fR,
 \fImacosx=\fR, or \fIdarwin=\fR options defined.
 .TP
 .BI "message=" message_filename
-Specifies a file containing a message that is displayed before the boot
-prompt. [CURRENTLY UNIMPLEMENTED]
+Specifies a file containing a message that is displayed before the
+boot prompt.  You may specify either a plain pathname, in which case
+the default device and partition will be derived from the
+\fIdevice=\fR and \fIpartition=\fR lines in the global section of
+\fByaboot.conf\fR, or you can specify a full OpenFirmware device path,
+the file may be on any \fByaboot\fR(8) supported filesystem.  The message
+file must be plain ASCII text with UNIX newlines.  Note: only the
+first 2000 bytes of this file will be read.
 .TP
 .BI "password=" password
 Protect booting by a password. The password is given in either
@@ -293,14 +299,16 @@ brown, light-gray, dark-gray, yellow, and white.  The default is
 black.
 .TP
 .BI "bsd=" of-path
-The OpenFirmware or Unix device path to a NetBSD or OpenBSD bootstrap
-partition, this partition must already have the BSD ofwboot.elf
-bootloader installed in the root directory..  When you define this
-option you will be presented with a simple menu at bootup allowing you
-to hit L to boot GNU/Linux or B to boot BSD (along with other choices
-if configured).  This will only work if you are using the new
-\fI/usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofboot\fR script.  When this is set to a unix
-device node (ie \fI/dev/hda11\fR) then ybin will use the
+The OpenFirmware or Unix device path to a NetBSD or OpenBSD root
+partition, this partition must have the BSD kernel located at \fI/bsd\fR.
+You must also have the BSD bootloader
+\fIofwboot\fR installed at \fI/usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot\fR,
+\fBybin\fR(8) will install this onto the \fBbootstrap\fR(8) partition.
+When you define this option you will be presented with a simple menu at
+bootup allowing you to hit L to boot GNU/Linux or B to boot BSD (along
+with other choices if configured).  This will only work if you are
+using the new \fI/usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofboot\fR script.  When this is
+set to a unix device node (ie \fI/dev/hda11\fR) then ybin will use the
 \fBofpath\fR(8) utility to determine the OpenFirmware device path.
 .TP
 .BI "macos=" of-path